Aug 29, 2011
Big greenhouse project may create 700 jobs

A roughly 250-acre tract in southern Marion County once slated for single-family homes will soon host a slew of houses of a different kind — greenhouses.

A partnership of a family of local developers and an organic farmer recently launched construction of the first of what could be hundreds of greenhouses dotting the landscape along southbound Interstate 75 just outside the SummerGlen subdivision.
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